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Greetings!
Lovin' this summer weather ... and one of my favorite weekends for music is here! The San Jose Jazz Festival is happening this Friday, Saturday and Sunday happening
at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park and in surrounding venues. Known as one
of the biggest Latin festivals in the nation, this year's standout music
line-up ranges from legendary Grammy® Award-winning musicians and
internationally renowned jazz artists to hidden gems in the San
Francisco Bay Area music scene. 
Featured acts at this year's Summer Fest include Morris Day & The Time, The Jazz Crusaders
featuring
Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson and Wilton Felder, The Spinners, Dianne
Reeves, Terence Blanchard, Boney James, Coco Montoya, Rene Marie, Tia
Fuller, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Tony Monaco Group, Jeff Hamilton
Trio, Alessandro Penezzi Quartet, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Marcus
L. Miller w/Freedom Jazz Movement, Wil Campa y Su Gran Union, Pacific
Mambo Orchestra, Anthony Blea y su Charanga, Avotcja & Modupue, Gail
Dobson and her Vocal Youth Ensemble, Amanda Shaw & The Cute Guys,
Yoshiaki Miyanoue Tokyo Quartet, Adam Theis & Subharmonic,
BlackMahal, Jackeline Rago & The Venezuelan Music Project, Team
Bahia, Ben Flocks, Kat Parra Latin World Ensemble, Yesberger Band,
Vitchev/Tamburr New Quartet, Girls Got the Blues, La Tenaza Trio, and
many other distinguished artists listed in the press release below. For full line up please click here.
This Wednesday and every Wednesday through September 19th, you can catch the John Santos lecture series, CRIOLLA Y SABROSA: LA MUSICA PUERTORRIQUEAN sponsored
by the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, MoAD and SFJAZZ. Lecture is at the
Museum of African Diaspora from 7 - 9pm. To hear John Santos teach is
truly inspiring, fascinating and enriching!
Lecture #2 - Música Jibara: Country Music 
Música Jíbara is Puerto Rico's soulful, rural musical expression with Spanish/Islamic roots. It is described as trigueña (tri-racial)
on the island and has evolved gradually over a five hundred year period
with particular development in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Part
of an eight-week lecture series by five-time Grammy-nominated
historian/producer John Santos that delves into the origins, evolution,
and relevance of Puerto Rican music, encapsulating the folk and popular
musical trends of this tiny, yet highly expressive Caribbean nation.
European, African, and Indigenous roots and an often violent political
history form the foundation of Puerto Rican traditional and popular
music and set the stage for the birth of Salsa in New York's Puerto
Rican community. Mr. Santos will illuminate Puerto Rico's musical
evolution from a socio-political perspective, through audio examples
from his legendary collection, video clips, and historical background
based on his lifetime of immersion in Puerto Rican music.
 Following this fantastic lecture by John Santos, head straight over to the Mission District to Amnesia to catch pianist Rebeca Mauleon playing Eddie Palmieri, presented bySF JAZZ HotPlate Series at 9pm. Featuring an incredible line up; Rebeca Mauleón piano, vocals, musical director, Jesús Diaz congas, vocals, Carlos Caro timbales, vocals, Jeff Cressman trombone, Joel Behrman trumpet, trombone, Abe Gumroyan bass and Chloe Scott flute! This is the perfect way to kick off what I promise to be a fantastic weekend of music!
Also,
I'm sure you know this weekend Outside Lands is going down as well!
Stevie Wonder is playing- and I just simply want to tell Stevie I truly
love you and thank you for the blessings of your music and a big shout
out to my friend Victoria - have fun girl!
 Following the San Jose Jazz Festival, the 1st Annual San Francisco Son Jarocho Festival
presented by Round Whirled Records presents at the Brava Theater
at 2781 24th Street, San Francisco. Thanks to meeting the Kickstarter
Goals, the Son Jarocho Festival is able to donate some proceeds from
ticket sales to benefit the Brava Theater - so this is music and
community coming together in the best of all ways! To Purchase Tickets Please Click Here!
The
Son Jarocho Festival brings together important bands from the Veracruz
region of Mexico playing their traditional folk music and US-based
fusion groups who draw upon the Son Jarocho style for inspiration.
Complete with film screenings, concerts, collaborations, workshops
and talleres, and community fandangos, the San Francisco Son Jarocho
Festival is open to anyone interested in the folk traditions of Veracruz
or new music inspired by those traditions.
Thursday, August 16th, 2012
Celebrated filmmaker
Marco Villalobos (Rompiendo el Silencio, The Mas Chulo Shorts) presents
work from his documentary Son Siglos, which follows the struggles of
three young Son Jarocho musicians from Southern Veracruz -
Noé, Rubí, and José Luis - as they balance their modern desires with
their conviction to preserve and elevate their culture on both sides of
the U.S.-Mexican border. Villalobos is a William J. Fulbright scholar
(Mexico 2009-2010) and a UNESCO-Aschberg Laureate (France 2003-2004).
Friday, August 17th
Pa'Sumecha,
led by master jarana (small eight-stringed Mexican guitar)
and quijada (jawbone) player Alfredo "El Godo" Herrera, is a graceful
and mellifluous trio whose skillful musicianship is matched by poetic
grace and thoughtfulness. Original verses are crafted over traditional
song forms while the marimbol (like a giant thumb piano) fills out the
low-end with round, booming bass.
Quetzal,
musical ambassadors from East L.A., perform their unique brand of
Jarocho-rock music, drawing on influences from Southern Veracruz'
traditional folk music through Los Lobos and The Smiths to highlight the
modern blend of Chicano culture. Led by activist Quetzal Flores and
singer/academic Martha Gonzalez, Quetzal has accumulated a vast cult
following over their fifteen-year history.
Saturday, August 18th
Los Cojolites,
representatives of the next generation of Son Jarocho musicians in
Southern Veracruz, come directly from within Mexico's oldest musical
tradition with their vanguardian interpretations incorporating modern
elements into their folk style. Since their initial international
recognition in the film Frida, Los Cojolites have catapulted to the
forefront of the global Son Jarocho movement.
Andres Flores from
Veracruz, Mexico is a master of jarana and pandero jarocho, as well as a
renowned luthier and teacher. One of the founders of Son Jarocho
super-group Chuchumbé, Flores will be performing some of his favorite
traditional sones.
Sistema Bomb was
born out of trans-national collaborations between Chicano musicians in
the US and masters of Son Jarocho in Mexico in a unique blend of
electronic dance music with the traditional son of Veracruz. Heavy beats
mix with jaranas and harps in this cross-border musical adventure.
Sunday, August 19th
Talleres and
workshops with Son Jarocho masters in a variety of fields will be held
in and around the Brava Theater, with master classes
including jarana, zapateo (percussive dance style), and poetry.
Ticket outlets:
Brava Theater Box Office 415-641-7657 x1
http://www.brava.org
For more info visit our website at: http://www.SFSJF.com
In case you missed the Best
of Roots Concert that featured John Santos, John Calloway, Marcus
Shelby, Faye Carol, Wayne Wallace, Glen Pearson, Terrance Kelly and many
others - here are some videos... this was truly a fantastic show that I hope happens again!
Great to be back with the newsletter after a little hiatus! Hope to see you at the festivals! Thanks for supporting LIVE MUSIC!
Peace through music,
Stephanie
Urban Music Presents
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